Responding to comments from Welsh Government adviser Prof David Reynolds, who has questioned Welsh Government plans to cut infant class sizes, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns said: “Clearly, reducing class sizes will not be a silver bullet to solving the educational crisis facing Wales’ schools. “With the evidence racking up as to…
Powys County Council will defend any legal challenge by parents to its policy over school transport, which has already led to the resignation of a cabinet member. The council decided in 2011 to give three years’ notice that it would not allow the use of designated school funding to pay for home to school to…
Some 86% of council chief executives fear that some local authorities will get into serious financial trouble over the next three years, while 56% expect that to happen within one year, research has suggested. The Local State We’re In 2016, business advisory group PwC’s sixth such survey, asked nearly 100 chief executives and local authority leaders…
A three-point plan to help Wales increase the number of volunteers in sport to 300,000 by 2019 has been announced to mark national Volunteers’ Week (1st – 12th June). With volunteers vital to getting more people in Wales active and hooked on sport, Give to Gain sets out three principles that all organisations, clubs or indiviuals…
Community and voluntary groups are being given the chance to secure free furniture and equipment via Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s innovative RCT Together approach. A range of goods which cannot be utilised in other Council facilities following the closure of Blaengwawr Comprehensive School, with pupils moving to the £50m Aberdare Community School development, are on…
According to NHS Choices, Osteoarthritis is a condition that causes a person’s joints to become painful and stiff. It is the most common type of arthritis in the UK. The severity of osteoarthritis symptoms can vary greatly from person to person, and between different affected joints. For some people, the symptoms may be mild and…
To mark her significant birthday, Abergavenny based artist Louise Collis has produced forty paintings of places that have been special to her in her 40 years. An exhibition of the collection is due to be launched in Caerphilly on Sat 4th June. The artist returns to Y Galeri Caerffili, following her 365 Landscape exhibition in…
South Wales Police are investigating a series of malicious hoax communications to schools across the force area today. Police take hoaxes extremely seriously. They divert police resources and cause disruption and alarm to the public. Anyone with information should contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Officers were called to an incident in Aberaman, Aberdare at around 00.35am on Saturday 30th April following an assault. It is believed that two men carried out the assault on the 44 year old victim. The assault took place on Cardiff Road. The man was taken by ambulance to Prince Charles Hospital with injuries to…
Works are set to begin to improve flooding defences along the A4059 as part of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s multi-million-pound (£23m) Highways, Transportation, Infrastructures and Strategic Projects (HTISP) Investment Programme. The works which will see £85,000 invested along the bends referred to locally as “Letty Turner’s bends” aims to address several areas that has been…
